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Doesn't anyone else think having the company with 90 percent market share in PCs charge for access their OS this way, is a little insane? How did the anti-trust
by devx 13y ago
Doesn't anyone else think having the company with 90 percent market share in PCs charge for access their OS this way, is a little insane? How did the anti-trust committee miss this one a decade ago?
- yuhong 13y agoI know. I wish that B&N had brought it up when they had the chance.
- cbhl 13y agoexFAT is new, and actually quite different from FAT32/16/12. If I recall correctly it has things like extents, xattrs, and support for files >2GB. The only reason to use exFAT is if you need a filesystem that can be accessed from both Windows and Mac OS X. If you only need Windows, then use ntfs-3g. If you only need Mac OS X, then use HFS.
- ajross 13y agoexfat is also the default filesystem on Android devices for large (>32G maybe?) SDXC cards. It has clear advantages over FAT on huge filesystems, though this is excruciatingly annoying as it's easy to forget to format it wrong by accident and end up with a filesystem I can't read from my Linux machine. What use is removable media without a universally recognized format?
- cbhl 13y agoThat's because exFAT is mandated by the SDXC specification, whereas SD only required FAT [citation needed]. Presumably, the original reason the exFAT driver was written in the first place was to enable Android devices to read SDXC cards.